Recent content by 73DreamRunner

Some history pics

Done for now.

Its been a while since I was on here, been busy fixin on my Dream Runner. Here is a updated pic.

Thanks for all the replies. I went through all ideas and finally found it. Thanks again.

Well I went back thru rechecking everything and found that my ground to the distributor was weak. I made a better ground and now everything seems to be ok. I'll see how it goes from here.

That might be the problem. I checked and had 12volts in the run position. But it drops to around 10 when cranking. How did you wire up the relay from the battery?

My original stock distributor had a broken collar and I just thought I'd upgrade whilst changing it out. I had read that ready to run distributors were better and helped with starting and overall performance. Oh well live and learn. I'm gonna check out a few other things that might be causing...

Oh and I increased the spark plug gap from .35 to .47.

It's a CRT performance ready to run hei. The timing is set at 10 deg. Same as before. I bypassed the ballast by digging out the resistors on the back and put in 16 guage wire to keep the stock look. It runs fine once its started. It just takes alot longer to get started. The medium springs...

Hi all, just finished up replacing my oe distributor with a ready to run distributor. Before I did the swap my stock 400 would fire up within 2 seconds of cranking. Now it takes 5+ seconds and coughs and then more cranking. Finally when it starts it runs great. Is it because of different...

I just finished up doing my 73. I dug out the resistors in the back of the ballast and ran a 16 gauge wire to work as a splice for the blue and brown wires and used my original wire to the positive side of the coil. The original negative wire is not used because the negative coming from the hei...

That's my car!!!

Hi Mr. B, I'm originally from Bedford Pa. Got stranded out here in Vegas after the Air Force.

Thanks, I just hope I can make it happen.